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Guess they don’t have 99 cent stores there either. If I lived there I would probably starve

First I thought, well, maybe the price is not in US Dollars.  So, I checked.  Apparently, Canadian dollars are nearly worth the same as US Dollars.  (Currently C$1 = $0.97 US)  Then I considered the average income of folks in Canada.  After I put 2 and 2 together…YIKES!!!  I don’t think I could afford to eat/drink if I lived in that province of Canada.  I find the bottled water most outrageous.  All the other prices are 2 to 5 times more expensive than comparable goods I can obtain at my local grocery store…but that brand bottled water usually goes for about $4-$6 for 24 bottles (including CRV).  Even the most expensive bottled water I can find, I can buy at least 12 cases (considering some brands are more expensive) for the price of 1 case.  Great reason to go for tap water, I think.  BUT, I do not know how safe is the tap water in that northern province of Canada is.

Hey, you’re in Austin, start getting your veggies from one of the many farmers’ markets and co-ops around here! Greens especially are much cheaper. 

Yikes! 

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - I just recently discovered the joys of Wheatsville!

Nunavut is a territory, not a province.  But that’s the Canadian in me being picky.

It would suck to buy food up there.  Like you mentioned, it IS really far to transport food up there and since its so cold, local produce isn’t exactly abundant.

I’m kinda confused why anyone would live there unless they are getting paid by whatever job there an amount that matches up to the price of food. I realize the majority of the population is Inuit there, but still. Sometimes it is just time to move.

Government also pay 2x the amount for those that wanna work in Nunavut & for boarding too.
But of course no one wanna live there for long.
After 1-2 year of working (once they made enough money)they move back to their own province

These are expensive, but not that odd to me, except the water which is ridiculous. I live in Iceland and food here is really expensive too, especially the healthy kind. Not quite this expensive, but our fruits and veggies are all very low-grade, as importing them is so expensive that getting the good stuff would just cost too much. It’s awful. There’s this one store that imports from America here and they have pretty decent fruits, but a small box of strawberries is around 10 dollars there.

I dont think too many people live up there anyways.

Also, Nunavut isn’t a province, It’s a territory, just so you know

And I am sure if people live up there and food being so expensive, they probably make alot more money than someone living in a Southern Province.

Oh my gosh!!! You need to get up here to Oregon, where all the health nuts conspire together to make things cheaper!

How on earth is water that expensive? I know it’s the desert and all, but come on.

Both my parents lived in northern Manitoba (at the border of Manitoba and Nunavut, what was then still part of the North West Territories) and my dad flew a small airplane to transport supplies up north to Rankin Inlet. There are not many people living in Nunavut, first of all. It’s mostly Natives. It is not the best place to live by any means, and they are always desperately looking for doctors/teachers to go work there. The government has subsidies for people living that far north. 

So the prices may seem ridiculous, but you can’t really spend money on ANYTHING else up there. The Canadian gov. will pay people for living in “seclusion” (It’s true- my brother lived in Alert aka the North Pole for three months and took home an extra $2500 from the gov.) and you are not rich to begin with. So for people saying “I would never move to Nunavut”, don’t worry, no one in Canada wants to!Check out the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut“one of the most sparsly populated areas of the world”

i don’t get it.

I would starve.

You have to take into account Nunavut’s minimum wage. This is so misleading lol. 

@Digital_Angel21@xanga - @blowingmoney@xanga - 

Nunavut has a higher minimum wage. So it works out with the price it costs to buy necessities. 

actually a lot of people move out west of canada. when people finish high school here, they go out west. some people stay for a year or so, and others stay for a few years. they pay a lot to go out there, that’s why people move out there. i’m from the maritimes in canada and things are only expensive there because it’s harder to ship it there. it’s not all of canada that has those prices. for bottled water we can pay 99 cents at no frills lol. 

Are there no farmers in Canada or something? And even if Canada imports from America, it’s not like it’s overseas….those prices are RIDICULOUS! You can buy that tropicana orange juice for 5 USD down the street where I live…..

uhm. i live by toronto. tropicana is about 5 bucks. n yes there are farmers canada… just like there are farmers in every other country in the world.